Art Quotes · Page 247

We find the Works of Nature still more pleasant, the more they resemble those of art.

— Joseph Addison

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

— Saul Bellow

Making art in which you're learning is something I always strive towards.

— RaMell Ross

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

— Quincy Jones

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

— Angeles Arrien

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

— Robert Frost

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the…

— Margaret Weis

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective…

— Patti Smith

All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the…

— Dick Schaap

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of…

— Willem de Kooning

“Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.”

— Richie Norton

Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.

— Kate Braverman

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how…

— Reed Hundt

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

— Grayson Perry

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes it's just really - I…

— David Henry Hwang

Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations…

— Lewis Mumford

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game…

— Sheryl Crow

“My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes [...] The fear was practically…

— Grant Morrison

All the world loves a young emerging artist, and sometimes it seems that all the world wants to be one - on…

— Michael Leunig

The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to…

— James Agee

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the…

— Ian Stewart

“A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an…

— Haruki Mukarami

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

— Eugenio Montale

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

— Jerry Uelsmann

All good art is about something deeper than it admits.

— Roger Ebert

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

— Stendhal

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

— Joe Rogan

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

— Ambrose Bierce

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

— Cameron Sinclair

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

— Julia Glass

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

— Andrew Jack

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.

— Yoko Ono

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

“A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.”

— Ezra Pound

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

— John Updike

“Art is the passion born from a souls divine connection to God”

— La Shea M Johnson